CNPS7000A-Cu/7000-Cu

Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
edited July 2003 in Hardware
How good are the Zalman 7000-Cus? They've got the AMD version, the A-Cu, out now, and it looks like it could give the SLK-900 some pretty stiff competition. My only concern would be clamping a 800g heatsink to an AMD cpu...

http://zalman.co.kr/english/product/cnps7000a-cu.htm

Comments

  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    mmm... I dunno. I don't have much faith in orb coolers. You get really efficient airflow in an orb cooler, but less surface area for it to blow across.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    That only holds true for the Thermaltake orbs... the Zalman can hold it's own against a SLK-900 with a similar fan on a P4...
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    You got some benchmarks? I'll believe it when I see it :)
    I'd be real surprised to see it beat a SLK with that little surface area.

    Has Dan's Data added it to his list yet?
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1359
  • TheBaronTheBaron Austin, TX
    edited July 2003
    i've read only good things about the P4 version of that, the stock cooling fan is supposed to be quite good. amd version though, i couldn't tell you
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited July 2003
    That's a big futhermucker, that's for sure. Why dont' you get a socket A version and try it out, Geeky? If it doesn't perform well enough with the stock fan, then mode you a Delta 80 in it.:D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    because it weighs damn near 800g and I can hear the sound it's gonna make when I clamp it on...

    also, it's a 92mm fan, not an 80mm :D
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited July 2003
    Mod a Vantec Tornado then?:D;D

    It's damn sure heavy enough.:eek2:
  • GargGarg Purveyor of Lincoln Nightmares Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Wish there were some Thermalright heatsinks on their list of reference heatsinks.

    I didn't realize it was 92mm, that helps compensate for the surface area. I think the biggest attraction for me would be the quiet, good-performing aspect. Fans that quiet seperately aren't cheap, so you might as well get one that comes with a good heatsink.

    And because of the orb design, I doubt the fan is upgradable. Even if a new fan was mounted to it, it wouldn't blow as much to the sides as the Zalman spec fan does. Of course, with 3 million CFM, it may not matter :)
  • BlackHawkBlackHawk Bible music connoisseur There's no place like 127.0.0.1 Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    The thing I don't like about those "orb" fans is that you can't actually change the fan to one you like or when you want to change one to a led one or you suddenly want a quieter or louder one. Also when the fan dies you usually have to buy a new one.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    gargoyle, if you go to frostytech's heatsink database and look up the review of the slk-900, you should find a comparison chart between it and the 7000...
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    Wow!

    That thing could even cool a medium-sized tec with a tornado i think, at least in theright environment.

    Dadgummit! What does it cost?
  • WuGgaRoOWuGgaRoO Not in the shower Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    im with the other fellas on the forum...there is sumthing offputting about the orb design...mainly because my first HSF was a double dragon....or sumthing like that...an extended orb..with two fans...one on top...the other on the bottom....it wasnt good enough...i went strasight for the wbk38
  • TheSmJTheSmJ
    edited July 2003
    If someone could get one for review (On an AMD) I'd love to see it. I remember when it first came out to the Pentium 4 market it performed better than any other in the air-cooled market, especially for how quiet it is.

    I'd be nice if everyone's fav. tech review website *cough*Short-Media*cough* could set something up with Zalman to do a comparison with other AMD coolers (such as the SLK-900)?

    I'd offer to do it myself if I wasn’t such a terrible writer.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited July 2003
    There is nothing inherently wrong with an orb design cooler, it's just that Thermaltake's orbs were so crappy they gave the design a bad name. I have an Agilent Arcticooler, which was designed for the P3 procs and it was a great hsf for it's purpose(cooling procs with a max heat dissipation of around 40 watts or so). It wasn't good enough for a 1200 Tbird though(for me at least), but it is smaller than all those orbs that TT put out. I presently have it glued on an old Radeon LE 32 DDR vid card. I wish I had saved it for a more deserving vid card though, like my 9700 Pro.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited July 2003
    There have been decent orb coolers in the past...

    see http://www.allelectronics.com/cgi-bin/category.cgi?category=220&item=CF-75&type=store

    Dan (of Dan's Data) glued one of those things to like an athlon 700 or something a while ago...
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